The Junction City Blue Jays opened their baseball season with a sweep of the Topeka High Trojans at Hummer Sports Park in the capitol city.
Junction City won the first game of the doubleheader 4-1 and took the nightcap 19-13.
The Blue Jays play at McPherson on Tuesday.
The Junction City High School softball team is offering a youth softball clinic to all third through eighth graders on Saturday, April 6th.
All who register are welcome to attend. The cost is free. For those that sign up their child and attend one of the summer programs $5 will be taken off of your summer fee.
The clinic will be conducted by JCHS Head Softball Coach Aaron Craig with the assistance of the softball coaching staff and players. Children can work on improving and enhancing their skills, techniques and knowledge of what it takes to become a better softball player.
To register for the clinic go to https://goo.gl/forms/u4cvHB45id3K1u2h2
A.J. Dickerson, senior at Junction City High School. has been named of the first-team All Centennial League basketball squad.
Blue Jay teammate Qua’vez Humphrey, a junior, received Honorable mention.
From Washburn Joe Berry was Newcomer of the Year, Jordan White Player of the Year and Kevin Muff Coach of the Year in Centennial League boys basketball.
A.J. Dickerson was named the most valuable player and the mvp on offense for the Junction City Blue Jay boys basketball team this past season. Team awards were presented Tuesday night.
For the varsity James Hall was named Best Teammate, Anthony Twiggs Newcomer of the Year, Darrin Battiste received the 6th Man honor, Terrance Crumpton Most Improved and Aaron Hamilton the Most Charges.
Other awards included Most Charges for the JV went to Luke Hughes. JV POY Chris Dixon and Joseph Gibson, Gunnar went to Kody Westerhaus, Defensive MVP to Aaron Hamilton and Qua’vez Humphreys, Freshman of the Year to Terrance Tedder, and Practice Player honors to Austin Smith and Billy Bivens.
The varsity team finished with a record of 10-11, the JV 3-18 and the ninth grade team 16-4.
The Junction City Blue Jay varsity and junior varsity baseball games scheduled today ( Tuesday ) in Topeka have been postponed until Thursday. Rain is in the forecast.
Junction City is now scheduled to play the Topeka High Trojans on Thursday at Hummer Sports Park in the capitol city.
There are some changes to the baseball and girls soccer schedules for Junction City High School teams.
Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus confirmed that the season opening baseball doubleheaders for the Blue Jay junior varsity and varsity teams against Topeka High that were on March 28th and 29th at Rathert Field have been rescheduled to March 19th at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka. Work is still under way on installing new artificial turf and sod at Rathert Field. Ice and snow this winter have caused delays in that process.
In girls soccer the junior varsity and varsity matches that were scheduled March 26th in El Dorado have been moved up one day to March 25th, Wichita Homeschool will replace Wichita Independent on the Junction City schedule April 2nd in Wichita, and a second varsity match has been added vs. Highland Park on April 30th at Al Simpler Stadium. The first varsity match with Highland Park is April 5th at Highland Park.
According to Blue Jay Athletics Twitter the Junction City Blue Jay boys bowling team finished 7th in the Class 6A State Tournament in Wichita on Friday. The tournament was held at the North Rock Lanes.
The Junction City Lady Jay bowling team has finished sixth in the Class 6A State tournament. Savannah Adams finished fifth and Cassidy Eschliman 18th for the Lady Jays in the tournament.
The information was provided via the Blue Jay athletics twitter feed.
The Junction City Blue Jays ( 10-10 ) play at Lawrence Free State ( 13-6 ) in the first round of a Class 6A Substate Basketball Tournament on Wednesday night. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
Blue Jay coach Nick Perez noted the Firebirds have some good shooters. “Most part of their offense they’re all about four-out-one and try to drive it, and then if you help they give it to the big guy. Size is going to matter. They’ve got about three – four guys who start that are taller than our biggest kid, so we’re going to have to box out and rebound and do those little things.”
You can hear the game on 107.9 FM and 1420 KJCK AM. The broadcast begins at 5:50 p.m. with tipoff set for 6 p.m.
The other half of the substate bracket finds Topeka High ( 18-2 ) hosting Derby ( 5-14 ). The winners of the two games will play Friday night on the court of the higher seeded team for the substate championship.
The Junction City Lady Jay basketball team saw their season end with a 63-36 loss to Wichita West in a Class 6A Substate Play-In game Monday evening in Wichita. West broke open a close game when they moved from a 16-14 lead in the second quarter to a 33-19 margin at halftime.
The loss left Junction City with a final record of 0-21 for the season, while Wichita West improved to 4-17, and will advance into the Substate Tournament against the top seed in the western part of the state, Liberal, on Thursday in Liberal.
After the game Junction City Head Coach Derek Petty announced his resignation. “I couldn’t get them motivated to do the things we needed to do to be successful and that’s why I’m going to step down as coach. ” Petty added, “I’m gonna resign.”
Petty served as head coach of the Lady Jay basketball program for a total of four seasons. Petty wants to coach again in the future but noted he might need to take a year off to relax and regain himself, and then go from there.
Petty is a graduate of Junction City High School, and in the past served as a Blue Jay boys assistant basketball coach, and also coached in the state of California.
